Taste : a literary history / Denise Gigante.
Taste : a literary history / Denise Gigante.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.
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N820.93559/1
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
1. Aesthetics and appetite : an introduction -- 2. Mortal taste : Milton -- 3. The century of taste : Shaftesbury, Hume, Burke -- 4. Digesting Wordsworth -- 5. Lamb's low-urban taste -- 6. Taste outraged : Byron -- 7. Keats's nausea -- 8. The gastronome and the snob : George IV.
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Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
c2005.
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"The author advances a theory of taste based on Milton's model of the human as consumer (and digester) of food, words, and other commodities - a consumer whose tasteful, subliminal self remains haunted by its own corporeality. Radically rereading Wordsworth's feeding mind, Lamb's gastronomical essays, Byron's cannibals and other deviant diners, and...
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Taste : a literary history / Denise Gigante.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2005.
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N820.93559/1
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74VKmjEmKD7A
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKmjEmKD7A
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0300106521 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300106527 (cloth : alk. paper)
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820.93559
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991020699599702626
